guests senator john mccain and congressman adam schiff. for our international viewers "amanpour" is coming up next. for our viewers in north america, "news room" with brooke baldwin starts right now. hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me on this monday. live during the show we could be getting the answers that relatives and protesters are demanding in the death of freddie gray. baltimore police now getting ready to hold a news conference one day after the 25-year-old died. according to police gray was arrested back on april 12th quote/unquote, without force or incident. but as you can see from this photo from the family here that may be a different story, according to some. somehow in police custody, gray's spinal cord was severed. his family's lawyer says he lapsed into a coma. there's no video of baltimore

officers approaching gray. we don't have that. by the time cell phones started rolling, he apparently couldn't walk but he could talk and in this footage, you can hear his screams. >> [ bleep ]. >> his leg look broke! look at his leg! look at his [ bleep ] leg! that boy leg look broke! his leg broken y'all dragging him like that! >> let's begin our coverage on this with our suzanne malveaux. she brokeeaks down the moments of freddie gray's final days. >> reporter: that is freddie gray. >> that boy's leg look broke! >> reporter: being detained a week ago by baltimore police.

the question now, how did the 25-year-old go from this to this lapsing into a coma less than an hour later and dying yesterday? >> the questions that many of you have are the same questions that we're asking. >> reporter: the attorney for gray's family alleges the police are covering up what really happened. baltimore police say they spot gray and begin to approach him at 8:39 in the morning on april 12th. for reasons not yet disclosed. they say gray immediately runs away. just a minute later, police take gray into custody and then 14 minutes later, at 8:54 in the morning, this is the first video we see of the event. officers load gray into the police van. police say video evidence indicates gray's conscious and speaking at the time. a half hour later, police request paramedics bring gray to a hospital. gray's family attorney says he lapsed into a coma and underwent

extensive surgery. his spinal cord was severely injured, and a week later he died at 7:00 in the morning. so two looming questions. why did police pursue gray? and what happened to him while he was in their custody that resulted in his death? >> the officers believed that mr. gray was either immediately involved or had been recently involved in criminal activity, and they decided to make contact with mr. gray. now, that is still a bit vague. >> reporter: this most recent mystery into a deadly police encounter sparking more outrage. in a nation already embroiled in debate over police tactics and use of force. though in this most recent encounter, baltimore's mayor promises answers. >> i want citizens to know exactly how it happened and if necessary, we will -- i will ensure that we will hold the

right people accountable. >> suzanne malveaux with that. here i have "baltimore sun" reporter. i have a lot for you. i know as suzanne pointed out, sort of the two big questions that perhaps we finally will get answers to in this news conference that will happen live during the show why did police pursue him, and what happened while he was in police custody? do you have any details, anything from sources at this hour? >> so this story has been going on for a week. police have not disclosed really anything about the incident. that's really what's fueling a lot of the frustrations from the community. but we were able to obtain this morning a document filed in court by police regarding the arrest of mr. gray in which the officer said he ran from police without provocation. when they stopped him, he had a switchblade on him. they claim he was taken into custody without force or

incident. once he was placed in the transport van, he went into a medical emergency. we know that medical emergency was a severely injured spine. right now what the police are trying to do is they're trying to figure out at what point those injuries occurred. did it happen in the van? did it happen before or after? >> that's right. i have a former police officer who i'll ask about the whole arrested without force incident as you alluded to. my next question would be when you watch this video and you hear his screams, his wails, that tells me he was able to make noise or to communicate to a degree before he's entering the van. did you see that? >> right. and police have noted if you watch the tape very carefully, he's at first dragging his feet. right before they put him into the van, he props himself up and puts his feet down. that's leading them to believe this injury happened at some point after that arrest and that's what they're looking into. there have been lawsuits in the city in the past about people

who were unrestrained in police vans. the vans were perhaps driven aggressively. there was actually someone who sued the city and won a large judgment for having a broken neck in such an incident. that's one of the things that obviously is being looked at right now. >> let's broaden it out. i think that lawsuit is one of many. i was reading in your paper this morning about now how the doj is investigating because the commissioner is calling on it because of your paper. you've been covering this for years. baltimore police certainly no stranger to complaints and lawsuits and settlements. for people not quite in the weeds as you are put this all in context for us. >> yeah every year the department has a certain number of uses of force. they might have anywhere from 9 to 20 police-involved shootings. the past couple years have been a string of incidents that really captured the city's attention, some in-custody deaths that did not involve shootings, people taken to the ground during an arrest who had a ruptured spleen and died. there was a man pulled over for making a three-point turn,

reversing in an intersection. he died after a struggle with police. there's also a teenager who was taken to the hospital who was tasered multiple times and died. in these cases, the department has talked about transparency. they've commissioned these blue-ribbon panels to have outside experts look at the cases. but the feeling in the community is that the police are above the law, that they're not made to answer for their actions, and that these cases frankly take too long. they want answers now. they want to know what the department knows. our reporting this morning shows that they indeed have a documented account of what happened. it was filed publicly in court, but they didn't want to discuss it. they say that was to preserve the integrity of the investigation. >> all right. well great reporting on your end and your paper's end. we'll all be watching and waiting for new details to drop in about an hour and a half. justin fenton with "the baltimore sun," thank you so much. again, that news conference happening 3:30 eastern time. we'll take the whole thing live for you as we should get more details on this man's death. as you heard, the baltimore police force has been under fire for abuse and overstepping its

authority before. i want you to listen to this statement. this is from the attorney for freddie gray's family. >> bear in mind baltimore has a sorry history of police brutality and an even sorrier history in terms of a governmental response to police brutality. typically, the police deny deny deny no matter what the facts are. >> with me now from baltimore, the reverend courtly witherspoon from the southern christian leadership conference. also with me in new york david katz former senior special agent with the dea and firearms expert. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. reverend, you're there in baltimore. let me begin with you. you heard the attorney for freddie gray's family. i know you've referred to baltimore as this police state. we'll be hearing from police one week since he was taken in that

van. why do you think it's taken police a week to speak publicly? >> well quite frankly, we don't know what the police department is hiding. unfortunately, we've dealt with this so many times before as justin fenton articulated. he's done a superior job reporting on these incidents, as we've had several high-profile cases within the past three years. he spoke about an incident with a man who was beaten to death in east baltimore. anthony anderson was killed on his 2-year-old granddaughter's birthday in her presence. police officers walked up behind him. they launched him into the air like a basketball slamming him on his head killing him almost instantly. police initially indicated that this transpired because they saw him in the midst of a drug transaction. however, we the community, demanded a preliminary autopsy report and we received it within 48 hours. there was no airway obstruction whatsoever with mr. anderson. nor were there any drugs on the

scene. so we forced police into recanting their statements. in addition two years ago, tyrone west was killed by the baltimore city police. he was drug out of his car. he was beaten tased to death. both of those instances happened without any type of consequences. no officers were fired. they were able to retain their pensions. and no one was jailed for those type of incidents. the last one i'd like to mention briefly is george king. he was a 19-year-old man who went into cardiac arrest at good samaritan hospital a hospital of all places. he went there to get a simple tooth extraction and was tasered five times to death by the baltimore city police and good samaritan police. in that case no officers were held accountable. no firings. again, no one was sent to prison. we want to happen here what happened in south carolina. we want these officers to be

fired, and we want for them to be charged with murder. >> all right. reverend let me come back to you here. david katz let me bring you in. you hear these myriad of examples of aggressive police tactics in baltimore. when you watch this video, just from a law enforcement perspective, there are a lot of holes. as "the baltimore sun" reporter was pointing out, we don't know what happened to freddie gray's legs. we don't know what happened once they put him in the van. we just know 80% of his spinal cord was severed. he went into a coma and ultimately died. when you see this play out, though through your lens what do you see? >> well first of all, one thing that jumps to mind is the fact that there may have been other instances of brutality and inappropriate use of force doesn't affect this case. >> right. >> so all we can see right now, we can see mr. gray on the ground. we can see him in handcuffs. we can see him screaming. he's in pain. i know there's been some suggestion he was injured in the van. probably unlikely. people need to understand that

in any interaction, when you're putting your hands on somebody you're running away an officer is going to tackle you or you're resisting arrest there's a possibility you're going to be hurt. i would submit to you that until we know more of the facts, it's very possible that they were -- this was an appropriate use of force and tragic accident. for example, he could have fallen. you break your neck or partially sever, it's a medical emergency. that's very easy to miss. giving cpr after an auto accident for example, partially severed vertebrae, they're killed. it could be that or something far worse. >> and why did it take 42 minutes for the medics to respond to him if he had been injured? staying with you, if police documents say they pursued him because he ran, quote, unprovoked from them. so here's a guy -- i'm not familiar with this part of baltimore, but i know he has a criminal history. they did ultimately according to "the sun" have a knife taped to his chest. they didn't know that when they

see him out there. they can know his history though. if you see someone run away from you as a police officer, does that give you justification to grab them? >> it's certainly suggestive enough to stop because it's suggestive of possible criminal activity. i understand the officer is trying to pursue have some sort of interaction. it's far more likely that there was something observed that got the officer's attention. i don't know what that could be. they haven't released it. i don't know why it's taken them so long to put some information out there. the longer it goes the more it fuels this speculation. we don't want that. if an officer did something wrong, they need to be held accountable. if they did something that was within all the use of force guidelines, they shouldn't be pilloried like this. >> reverend, let me come back to you. i don't think anyone is rushing to judgment but i understand you're referring to what happened in north charleston, where the mayor, the police commissioner the senators all came down on that before sundown that day. what do you want to hear from police and the mayor within the next hour?

>> we want to hear that these officers have been fired, and we want these officers to be charged with first-degree murder. those charges can come from the state's attorney's office. i live in the neighborhood. i'm not just a civil rights activist who worked in baltimore. i live in the neighborhood. >> this is your home. >> absolutely. and the thing is young african-american men are stopped and frisked every single day in that neighborhood. they're driving and they're stopped by the police. you have instances where people are taken into custody by the police and they're released with no release papers. you know, these stops are not substantiated with the proper documentation to say exactly why one was stopped by the police. so in my opinion, to hear that the police stopped somebody simply because -- to hear that he ran from the police officers i'm not surprised in this climate if he was potentially nervous that the police would

kill him, especially with the incidents that have happened here in baltimore, with the murder of michael brown in missouri, with the murder of trayvon martin in florida. i'm not surprised he would be nervous and potentially fearful and think the police were trying to kill him. >> reverend, thank you so much sir, for your time from baltimore. and david katz thank you very much. again, that news conference happening live during the show. stay with me as we hope for answers. just ahead, a suspect rushes at a police officer, daring him to shoot. the rookie officer refuses. is this an instance of police restraint, or was he risking too much here? let's look into that. plus as the united states is negotiating with iran over nukes, an american reporter just charged with espionage. could the white house use these talks as leverage for his release? and as the feds bust more americans allegedly trying to join isis, the terrorists taking their brutality to a whole new

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just in at cnn here we're hearing about tornado warnings for part of the city of atlanta. let me go live to our meteorologist there. tom, tell me where? >> this is the in northern suburbs, marieta and other communities. you well know this area of course. this is the third tornado watch in just two days. this extends from the metro area of atlanta to just to the west of charlotte. this is until 8:00 p.m. some of these thunderstorm cells are starting to produce rotation. therefore, the national weather service has issued a tornado warning in the northern suburbs. again, it's not the metro area but this is a highly populated area for counties such as dekalb. it includes cities such as john's creek, marieta, and sandy springs. we're starting to see these storms move east-northeast at about 30 miles per hour. they are dropping quarter-size

hail. brooke to let you know these storms are stronger than the ones we had yesterday and this morning. the city of atlanta is mourning the death of a teacher where high winds took a tree and put it down on her home and took her life. these are a little more potent as far as the severity and the spin. as we watch these storms most likely this is going to be just one of many in the hours ahead. again, it is the northern suburbs of atlanta. this warning is in effect until 2:45. again, we'll continue to watch these as they trek off to the east-northeast at 30 miles an hour. >> okay. that is awful, awful about that teacher. please keep everyone warned. thank you, tom. we have some breaking news here. an american journalist imprisoned in tehran since last summer has now been charged with espionage. this could mean 10 possibly 20 years in an iranian prison for "the washington post" tehran correspondent. the white house is now responding calling the charges

absurd their word in an interview with cnn. no one knows the dangers of being a journalists in tehran better than my next guest here. "new york times" bureau chief thomas erdbrink. >> in this country, working as a western reporter is complicated. sometimes i'm unpleasantly reminded of this fact. like that morning in july when my friend and colleague jason of the "washington post" was arrested. nobody knows why he's being held. working here is like walking a tight rope. >> that's incredible these video pieces you've been putting together. thomas erdbrink joins me now. thank you so much. sort of fortuitous we wanted to talk to you. we're hearing reports of espionage. local reports suggesting he worked under cover as a spy to provide data to the u.s. government. you're shaking your head.

you think this is kind of crazy. >> well look jason, above all, is not only my colleague but a very good friend. i've seen his career blossom over the years. he got my job after i left "the washington post" for "the new york times." he lived very close to me. we're very close friends. me might have had a different approach to working in iran -- >> how do you mean? be specific. >> well he might have tried to engage more with officials or tried to engage more with people who in my view would never do anything for a western journalist when you're in trouble. and that might have put him on the radar of certain people that are part of the iranian system who are not in favor of ties with the west, who are not in favor of people like foreign minister zarif, who are not in favor of a nuclear deal. so this is very dear to me. i was at his wedding. today to hear that jason is accused of espionage, to me is quite ridiculous. >> he's been what nine months away? >> yes, he's been in prison for nine months.

we don't know where he's being held. we don't know under what circumstances he's being held. his wife has been released. she's afraid to talk to the media. so all in all, for him and his family this is truly a horrible situation. it's also a horrible situation for journalism as a whole. >> i was about to say, does it make you at all frightened? you've been in tehran for 13 years. >> i've been based there. some are based in jerusalem or beirut. i have been very worried over the arrest. when he was arrested i was in the netherlands, where i'm originally from. i made a point of going back to tehran to show that me and as far as i know jaisson are not doing anything wrong in iran and are just doing our job the way journalists are doing their job all over the world. >> let me move off your friend and talk about the iranian nuclear deal speaking of americans being held there. could this not be leverage to get them released? >> well of course. the enormous weight of the

nuclear deal sort of unfortunately outweighs individuals like me or even more importantly jason. this is a deal that thousands of people in several world capitals have been working on for years. i'm sure that secretary of state john kerry raises jason's case in the negotiations but the iranians say, of course these negotiations are not about individuals. they're only about the nuclear deal. maybe in the future we can talk about other things. but i'm afraid jason plays a very marginal role in these talks. and therefore, also is not that much of a leverage other than that his arrest embarrasses those in iran who want to have a nuclear deal or want to have ties with the west. . >> and want to have a bigger role. i was reading "the time requestss" this morning. he wrote, one cannot con front al qaeda and its ie deedeological

state, which is neither islamic nor a state. what covered the iraq war. what's this about? we talked about the role of iran in iraq, in yemen currently, and their emergence. they're hoping to be seen. >> absolutely. and no one can deny iran's growing footprint in the region. it's a footprint the iranians like to say is based upon their growing power. you can also say that since the americans have pulled out from the middle east there's a vacuum which the iranians are conveniently stepping into. but what foreign minister zarif is clearly saying here here's dangling something in front of the americans. he's saying we can solve your problems in the middle east only if you trust us. first, we want this nuclear deal solved. >> trust, not a word the u.s. often uses with iran right? before i let you go, because i know we initially booked you to talk about your videos and pieces and they're phenomenal on "the new york times" website. tell me just briefly the story about the woman with the makeup

and the shirt, the morality police that exists in iran. >> well this series of videos is about showing daily life normal people normal issues in life in iran. one of these issues is the morality police that can arrest people for the way they dress. like the way you are dressed, you would be arrested. >> shame on me. i'm in a spring dress. >> so to see my assistant normally in a coat being arrested this is very difficult for her. and it shows some of the problems iranian women face. >> thomas erdbrink "new york times," thank you so much for taking the time with us. i really really appreciate it. thank you. >> thanks for having me. next here on cnn, terror arrest in the homeland. a half dozen suspects arrested in minnesota and california, accused of plotting to support isis. all of this as video emerges of the terror group targeting and killing christians in two different parts of libya. one of our favorite experts will

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you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. the fbi has just made a homegrown terror bust. at least six people arrested in two different states for allegedly plotting to travel to syria to fight along isis. the sting happened in minnesota and california targeting this group of friends who under the watchful eye of federal terror agents allegedly radicalized and did everything they could to get out of the u.s. >> they never stopped plotting another way to get to syria to join isil. they were not confused young men. they were not easily influenced. these are focused men who are intent on joining a terrorist organization by any means

possible. people often ask who is doing the terror recruiting in minnesota, and when will we catch the person responsible? but it is not that simple. in today's case the answer is that this group of friends is recruiting each other. >> well the plan from this group of friends unraveled when it was leaked to the fbi by one young man who had a change of heart. as the isis recruiting drive continues, so does the group's brutality. this terror group releasing new video, showing the graphic execution of 30 men. again, the target was christians. joining me is awefawaz. here's one of the differences. unlike some of the other videos we have seen, this shows two different kinds of killings, one by shooting, one by beheading,

in two very different locations. we're talking hundreds of miles in difference between one group of 15 and the other. what's this about? is this about isis trying to make everyone feel like they have the entire country of libya covered? >> well partly so. they want to tell the world that isis has major bases in libya, and in a way, it's true. outside of iraq and syria, isil or isis basically exists in terms of bases, in terms of cities in terms of towns in libya. but the question is sadly, brooke we're no longer really surprised by isil's viciousness. this is very sad because isil has mastered the art of savagery. the truth is thatey're killing poor migrant african workers in libya. they're showing they can brutalize them.

they're trying to show that they are worthy of their masters in iraq and syria. they're basically following in the footsteps of the caliphate. they want to show basically they exist and libya now is definitely part of the isil caliphate in the middle east. >> but to your point, the viciousness is not new. it what appears to be new is this territory grab of libya. is this realistic? is it truly the next move to spread this caliphate to libya? >> well, you know this is their strategy. their strategy is to spread their influence. it's to control more territories. it's to show the world that isil is winning. it has resilience it's spreading. the truth is it exists now in libya, even though not really all over the country, as you said. they control two or three major

cities. the reality is what we need to focus on is that libya is in chaos. there are two rival governments. war lords and militias control the country. you have mafia networks. you have human traffickers. on top of that you have isil. the question why isil or isis has made it to libya, is because as a social parasite it's in conflict zones. as long as the situation remains chaotic in libya, i expect isil to spread its influence in the country. the same way in yemen, as you know. given that yemen now is descending into all of out conflict i expect the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which is another branch of al qaeda to spread its influence, it's spreading its influence in yemen as well. >> that's right. we've been reporting on the spreading of isis in yemen since i believe it was november. but in libya, because of this spreading, people are fleeing.

because of the violence libyans are fleeing in fear. in fact right now i'm sure you know all about these -- this deadly ship wreck. hundreds of asylum seekers want out of libya. they want to head to italy. they're now feared drowned. is this -- how out of control is this humanitarian crisis fawaz? what can be done? >> you know brooke you really have asked a very important question. when you have chaos, when you deponent don't have a centralized authority, when you have merchants of death, when you have mafia networks when you have war lords controlling the country, libya now is a base not only for extremists like isis and isil but libya now is a base that basically exports fighters exports arms to its neighbors. tunisia is a case in point, as you well know. the two extremist who basically attacked the museum were trained

in libya. you go to west africa. you go to algeria. people are terrified that libya is becoming now an exporter of terrorism of arms. now, of course the human traffickers. libya is also a station for migrants. you have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of desperate young men and women who are trying to make it to europe and libya is the place. and human traffickers who deceive and manipulate and basically rob these poor myigrant migrants and put them on vessels, vessels that wreck on the high seas as we've seen over the weekend. in the past year, almost 1,000 migrants have died as a result of basically libya being the base for these particular migrants. now another 950 migrants

according to one witness. it tells you about the scale of this humanitarian crisis. and it tells you how pivotal libya has become. not only for the exports of extremism and arms and fighters be up even for isil. that's why resolving the conflict in libya basically bridging the divide between the two rival governments, establishing a centralized authority -- >> is so incredibly important. >> to take care of the situation in the country. >> i had to talk about libya today with you, fawaz gerges. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me brooke. >> coming up next a rescue just in the nick of time. police pull this woman from this burning car. here they go. minutes before it explodes. up next we'll talk to the officer who was there on the scene. back after this quick break.

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just in the nick of time. that is exactly how some new jersey police officers are describing this harrowing rescue of an unconscious woman from her burning car there on the side of the road. investigators say the 45-year-old, who's now facing dwi charges, got trapped after crashing her car. officers had to use a knife to cut her out of her seat belt as smoke was there rising from her vehicle. moments later, you'll see it the explosion, the flames just after officers pulled her to safety. i have the sergeant that was on the scene last thursday. he helped the officers who pulled the woman from the burning car. sergeant thank you so much for coming in. what a day. >> it was harrowing. >> you said you were a volunteer firefighter. you've been a cop for 18 years. to see something like that

rare. >> very rare yes. >> take me back to the scene. i mean here we are. what did you first see when you rolled up? >> as i first walked up to the scene, i saw the officer working on her, trying to remove her from the vehicle before this happens. i have nothing but admiration for these two officers who work tirelessly and remained calm and cool under pressure to remove her from that vehicle. >> she is 100% unconscious as they what they pull her, cut the seat belt. >> they cut the seat belt and they had to work to untangle her from the vehicle to pull her out of there before the fire entered into the passenger compartment. >> how many minutes? you see the edit. how many minutes between pulling her out and boom? >> i believe it was 20 seconds.

>> 20 seconds? >> somewhere along those lines, yes. and they did a tremendous job. the individual seen at the back of the car there, i believe that's the individual that actually called us and alerted us to the vehicle. >> so somebody pass the, saw the car, pick eded up the phone and called 911. >> he actually called 911. he was following her. as we were coming upon it he told us the car crashed. the first officer there pulled up to this moments after the car crashed and overturned into the ditch. >> before i let you go i just have to ask, i mean you go into your job. you've been doing this for 18 years. you're risking your life every single day. and just knowing that recently in the headlines have been issues officers and questions around police brutality. i just wondered if you had a message for people watching,

just in the wake of everything that we've seen. >> this is more typical of our dealings with the public. quite honestly this doesn't happen all that often. like i said these two officers do this every day, maybe not to this extent but they're always out there for the citizens and they work hard at what they do. it's nice to see this for a change. >> that's why we wanted to have you on. sergeant thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i really appreciate it. coming up next here today is april 20th. yes, that's 4/20. officer, you with me on this? he's shaking his head and laughing. for marijuana enthusiasts, it's an unofficial holiday around the globe. we're live where it's legal, colorado where people are celebrating at the, yes this exists it's a thing, the cannabis cup. we'll be right back. shopping online... ...is as easy as it gets. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers carpenters and even piano tuners...

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there are pot festivals, and there's the annual 4/20 celebration in denver. colorado's voters unleashed a wave of pot tourism when they legalized marijuana. this weekend saw two days of nonstop smoking and partying leading up to today, this unofficial counterculture holiday, linked to the date 4/20, april 20th, a long-time reference to marijuana. so we sent ana cabrera there. she's been out with some of these festival goers. i'm just going to let you take it away ana. you tell me what you're seeing. >> reporter: oh brooke. this is officially called the cannabis cup here in colorado which is ground zero of this marijuana legalization movement. we're literally seeing tens of thousands of marijuana enthusiasts here mingling with hundreds of cannabis companies that have converged from all around the country. they are marketing their pot

shops. they're marketing pot products stuff like the i-puff which is essentially a vape pen, similar to an e-cigarette, where you'll put the thc-infused oils to consume cannabis that way. and that's just the beginning. all this marijuana marketing is entertaining to say the least. we've been here now for a couple of days reporting. i want to show you what we ran into yesterday. take a look. i want to show you this particular product. this is an incredible company that specializes in pot pipes. i want to show you this special contraption. go for it. >> you're going to hit this build up suction. i'm going to light this end. when the hit gets to where you want it give me a thumbs up. i'm going to pull this carb. it's going to shoot the smoke down your throat. >> we're going to watch this process here. this is a company giving examples of how their products work. you can see he's lighting the marijuana on one end. the participant here is sucking in. now he's going to really get a big shot of that smoke as he

releases the chamber. we're told it's supposed to be a really smooth hit. how did it feel? >> felt amazing, actually. >> reporter: it is wild. it's whacky. it's hard to report out here and keep a straight face. i have to tell you, though officially it is illegal to be selling the products on site if they are pot products. it's illegal to be giving away free samples of pot. but people are allowed to consume cannabis on site. if they bring their own, that's okay. they can try out some of these different devices that way. we're also seeing a lot of people sharing with each other as well brooke. >> i mean i'm sure it's quite the sharing culture where you are, ana cabrera. enjoy it or something. >> reporter: everybody's happy. >> thank you. make sure you tune in tonight 9:00 eastern for dr. sanjay gupta's special "weed 3: the marijuana revolution." coming up the baltimore police department facing growing

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let's get an update here on our breaking news. this tornado warning in atlanta. tom, what are you seeing? >> some good news. we have torrential downpours, but the tornado activity has been what we call radar indicated. we don't believe that we've actually seen a funnel come down touch the ground and become a tornado. we still have a tornado watch. this is until 8:00 p.m. and includes the atlanta metro area up toward areas of south and north carolina. just recently a severe thunderstorm watch has been indicated and issued to areas to the north. charlotte, you're not in either box, however, you're not out of this yet. earlier we had a tornado indicated and issued by the national weather service. what we have now has moved on.

again, we don't think we've seen any circulation. we've had golf-ball size hail with this. they're raising offe ing racing off quickly to the east-northeast. the threat of tornadoes will stay in this region. a little later on the enhanced threat will be in your area the piedmont areas of virginia. that's where we could have wind and hail damage all the way towards pittsburgh as well. >> okay. keep your eye on it for all of us. thank you so much. and we roll on, hour two. thank you so much for watching cnn here on this monday. i'm brooke baldwin. minutes from now, we could be getting answers that relatives and protesters even the mayor of baltimore demanding in the death of freddie gray. police there minutes from now due to hold this news conference one day after the 25-year-old died. according to law enforcement, gray was arrested back on april 12th quote/unquote, without force or incident. but you see this photo from his family. someho